1. “Life is Beautiful” Oscar and 7Academy Award Nominations
Classic Movies
About Holocaust
1997

2. About the Plot
The movie shows very serious and deep ideas in a funny way.
This Oscar-winning Holocaust story with Roberto Benigni (as a writer/director/star of the movie) tells about a Jewish innocent living in a small Italian village with his wife and son in 1939.
When father and son are sent to a concentration camp, Benigni uses games and humor to shield/protect the boy from the surrounding horrors/terrible things.
Nicoletta Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini also star in this movie.

3. Setting : Place and Time a. __________ b. __________

4. A Concentration Camp… How to survive with a little child
A Concentration Camp… How to survive with a little child ? How to inform his wife who demanded to take her in the same train, that they are still alive and there is still a hope.

5. In his real life he was a simple waiter - there, in the restaurant of a fancy hotel he met his future wife.(who wasn’t Jewish, she was Italian) Can you expect from a Jewish usual/ordinary person to behave like a hero, the most courageous and brave man ?Why did he act like that? Was it really funny?

6. Who will rescue a child from gas chambers, the so called “Showers”?

7. Choose One picture to talk about

8. Find out who will survive
Find out who will survive ? Will Joshua accomplish his dream and get a real tank as a prize? Find the last part of the movie and answer this question. Use pictures, images or clips to justify your answers.